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Topic: Questions Of The Day | |
Mick Harper Replies: 4505 Views: 726612 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 11:26 am Subject: Questions Of The Day |
Angela Rayner is in big trouble with the women's movement who are accusing her of living with her husband. She denies it bitterly. Yes, she parked the kids with him and popped round from time to time ... | |
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
Mick Harper Replies: 2660 Views: 618607 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 7:38 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES |
I have already wondered in these columns what is causing my piece on the Croydon Playboy Murder, written back in August, to be getting so much continuing traction. Whatever it is, it produced sixty mo ... | |
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
Mick Harper Replies: 2660 Views: 618607 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 5:11 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES |
I wrote a story for Medium about Ukraine back in the middle of January and it got a dozen or so readers, standard for anything topical. Just recently and for reasons I know not, it has suddenly taken ... | |
Topic: All Things Roman | |
Mick Harper Replies: 405 Views: 196020 |
Forum: History Posted: 12:32 pm Subject: All Things Roman |
You know what we think about anything with a Cotton hallmark. The blurb's reference to Alfred's resettlement of London is hilarious. What was it, injun territory? | |
Topic: The Importance of Sport | |
Mick Harper Replies: 3894 Views: 705702 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 10:52 am Subject: The Importance of Sport |
It says so much about Channel 4's new found love of international football (four hours in total last night) that they couldn't be bothered even to mention that Wales were going out on penalties to Pol ... | |
Topic: The Importance of Sport | |
Mick Harper Replies: 3894 Views: 705702 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 10:21 am Subject: The Importance of Sport |
England 0 Brazil 1
England 2 Belgium 2 I like this England team. Energy with art. They were comfortably better than both these Great Powers (without either result being specially unjust). Harry an ... |
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Topic: The Importance of Sport | |
Mick Harper Replies: 3894 Views: 705702 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 8:57 am Subject: The Importance of Sport |
Moral Maze
It is the last day of the group stages, A plays B and C plays D. The A/B game is playing out as a tame nil-nil draw when A take advantage of being given the ball back after an injury to ... |
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Topic: Questions Of The Day | |
Mick Harper Replies: 4505 Views: 726612 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 6:34 am Subject: Questions Of The Day |
The local elections are coming up and a Ms Stephanie Petit has written to me asking for my support. She tells me all about herself though not, for some reason, what party she belongs to. This is, I se ... | |
Topic: All Things Roman | |
Mick Harper Replies: 405 Views: 196020 |
Forum: History Posted: 6:36 pm Subject: All Things Roman |
Is there a Saxon London, either in history (faked or not) or archaeology (true or misapplied)? I've never come across anything and I'm a Brummie myself. | |
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition | |
Mick Harper Replies: 2699 Views: 670885 |
Forum: British History Posted: 6:32 pm Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition |
I kinda lay this all out on pp 40-49 of Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries. Kent can only be understood as the bit between England and the continent. | |
Topic: The Importance of Sport | |
Mick Harper Replies: 3894 Views: 705702 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 8:01 am Subject: The Importance of Sport |
Israel 1 Iceland 4
Bosnia 1 Ukraine 2 Sometimes there is justice. |
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Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
Mick Harper Replies: 2660 Views: 618607 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 2:26 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES |
Yes, and I was in the middle of replying at length to the first one when the fox returned (I thought he'd gone). By the time I got back after finally dealing with it, the post had disappeared. I am so ... | |
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
Mick Harper Replies: 2660 Views: 618607 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:07 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES |
Am I being out-deadpanned?
Sanday is one of the smaller Orkney Islands, Six months before Easter, the owner of the shop placed his order for 80 Easter eggs. When the eggs arrived at the shop a few ... |
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Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
Mick Harper Replies: 2660 Views: 618607 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:40 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES |
I've got a fox sitting on my window ledge. It's slightly unnerving. He/she is looking up out of the basement well looking rather unnerved him/herself. I hope he/she makes it out safely, I don't know w ... | |
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
Mick Harper Replies: 2660 Views: 618607 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:09 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES |
All right, Mr Medium Know-All, get a load of this. The stats for my stories may be dismal but the stats for my responses to other people's stories are dismaller. Overwhelmingly one view, presumably fr ... | |
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